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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
Political
Country
Guiding
About
Indigenous
Idea
Discarded
Principles
Understand
American
Represent
Cannot
Which
Short-Term
Gains
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
You
Courage
Political
Topics
Dread
Some
About
Write
Writer
Takes
Labeled
Politically
Controversial
Fiction
If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
Barbara Kruger
Political
Political Power
Power
Like
Terms
Sounds
Up
Personal
Bring
When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski
Political
Old
Promises
Seniors
Sick
Market
Our
Security
Able
Bear
Rely
Count
Never
Retirement
Bull
Gets
Social
Should
Many
Social Security
Things
Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.
Barbara Mikulski
Political
Promises
Seniors
Market
Our
Bear
Rely
Never
Retirement
Bull
Should
Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause. Perhaps he will start to champion perjury statutes and obstruction of justice.
Barbara Olson
Great
Justice
Champion
Political
Cause
Will
Whatever
Ploy
Seems
He
Picking
Perhaps
Most
Obstruction
Gore
Perjury
Vulnerable
Issue
Up
Al
Found
Al Gore
Start
Championing
In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great concern to his own law-enforcement officials, not to mention the nation.
Barbara Olson
Great
Political
Mind
Nation
Matters
Own
Considerations
Mention
Outweigh
Concern
His
Clinton
Officials
Bill
Bill Clinton
Even
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
Barbra Streisand
People
Political
Too Much
Entitled
Think
Too
Our
Opinions
Very
Celebrities
Much
Many
Basic
Level
For reasons historic, aesthetic, and political, we Jews are most attuned to the anti-Semitism of the far Right - and we find the most sympathy among our progressive allies when these are our attackers.
Bari Weiss
Political
Anti-Semitism
Sympathy
Jews
Progressive
Our
Find
Allies
Most
Attuned
Aesthetic
Historic
Far
Far Right
Reasons
Among
Right
It is weird. A lot of people try to ask me political questions. I'm not a politician.
Barkhad Abdi
Me
People
Political
Try
Politician
Weird
Lot
Questions
Ask
It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.
Barney Frank
Capitalism
Fight
Problem
Political
Community
Action
Remains
Because
Intellectual
Essential
Against
Aspects
Community Action
Therefore
Across the continent, political divisions are deepening. For all of these reasons, the specter of a euro zone collapse has not been dispatched.
Barry Eichengreen
Political
Collapse
Divisions
Continent
Been
Across
Euro
Reasons
Deepening
Specter
Zone
For political and bureaucratic reasons, governments at all levels are telling far less to the public than to insiders about how to prepare for and behave in the initial chaos of a mass-casualty event.
Barton Gellman
Political
Chaos
Telling
About
How
Governments
Than
Behave
Bureaucratic
Public
Far
Far Less
Less
Reasons
Initial
Prepare
Event
Levels
Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
Bassem Youssef
People
World
Political
Power
Right-Wing
Definition
All-Around
Wing
Around
Always
Against
Sarcasm
Right
I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV - that was always my goal.
Beau Willimon
Me
Writing
Political
Side
TV
Finds
Something
Writer
Never
Stumbling
Likes
Himself
Operative
Always
Been
Goal
Campaigns
Did
Trajectory
Really
Working
Who
Profession
Dabble
Film
Film And TV
The thing I have come to find astonishing is that people from all political sides routinely say that the Internet has to be the model of free speech and freedom.
Beeban Kidron
Freedom
People
Political
Internet
Free
Free Speech
Sides
Astonishing
Say
Find
Come
Model
Thing
Speech
I've always maintained there is no incompatibility between Islam and democracy. The Europeans in general confuse Islam and Islamism. Islamism is a political movement that instrumentalises the religion to get to power, which has nothing to do with religion. Islam here in Tunisia is a religion of openness, of tolerance.
Beji Caid Essebsi
Religion
Democracy
Political
Power
Islam
Nothing
Confuse
Tolerance
General
Maintained
Between
Openness
Always
Political Movement
Get
Movement
Tunisia
Which
Europeans
Here
You have to look also to the media, where you have a vast majority of the loudest and most influential political voices in America media from people who came from the entertainment world.
Ben Affleck
You
Entertainment
People
World
Political
Loudest
Entertainment World
Vast
Vast Majority
Voices
Look
Most
Also
Majority
Came
America
Where
Influential
Who
Media
People of similar political persuasions tend to flock together.
Ben Affleck
Together
People
Political
Similar
Tend
Flock
I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.
Ben Bernanke
Political
Achieve
Will
Assure
Strictly
Independent
Ability
Objectives
Institution
Am
Effectively
Committee
Essential
Influences
Confirmed
Function
The central bank needs to be able to make policy without short term political concerns.
Ben Bernanke
Needs
Political
Able
Term
Make
Concerns
Policy
Without
Bank
Short
Central
Short-Term
Central Bank
Obviously, I haven't succeeded in defusing the political concerns about the Fed.
Ben Bernanke
Political
About
Fed
Obviously
Concerns
Succeeded
I have the happy circumstance of either being accused of political grandstanding on the one hand or cover-ups on the other.
Ben Chandler
Happy
Political
Other
Circumstance
Hand
Accused
Being
Either
If you're a conservative who thinks the culture wars are over (they're never really over, of course), then you are a lot more open to the idea of a unprincipled blowhard who promises he's got your back on political correctness.
Ben Domenech
You
Culture
Conservative
Political
Promises
Back
Correctness
Unprincipled
More
Never
Open
He
Idea
Over
Course
Got
Political Correctness
Lot
Then
Really
Your
Who
Wars
Thinks
The ongoing argument over whether the Enlightenment is a good thing is hardly a new facet of American political life.
Ben Domenech
Life
Good
Political
Argument
Ongoing
Facet
Good Thing
Over
New
Political Life
American
Whether
Thing
Hardly
Enlightenment
Indeed it can be argued that to make a powerful film you must care about the subject, therefore powerful films tend to be both political and partisan in nature.
Ben Edwards
Nature
You
Political
Care
Films
Indeed
Must
About
Both
Tend
Argued
Powerful
Partisan
Make
Subject
Therefore
Film
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